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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
by C. S. Lewis (Author, British , born in 1898) keywords: exercised, good, may, most, oppressive, sincerely, tyrannies, tyranny , victims What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
by C. S. Lewis (Author, British , born in 1898) keywords: call, exercised, instrument, man, men, nature, other, out, over, power, some , turns Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
by Pierre Loti (Writer, French , born in 1850) keywords: antiquity, astonishment, egypt, exercised, fascination, hesitation, illustrated, immediately, later, magazine, mysterious, over, picture, recognized, time , without But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
by Harriet Martineau (Writer, English , born in 1802) keywords: cannot, completely, exercised, fact, healthy, individual, moral, nature, religion, state, therefore, true , unless I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.
by Rue McClanahan (Actor, American , born in 1934) keywords: almost, been, diet, eating, exercised, family, had, history , vegetarian The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
by John Stuart Mill (Philosopher, English , born in 1970) topics: Power, Politics , Society keywords: against, civilized, community, exercised, harm, moral, power, prevent, purpose, rightfully, sufficient , warrant And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.
by Joe Miller (Politician, American , born in 1967) keywords: bankrupt, being, constitution, decades, disingenuous, does, exercised, gotten, into, last, need, over, position, power, provide, provides, seen, several, stop, think , us Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
by William Proxmire (Politician, American , born in 1915) keywords: always, check, cloak, dangerous, doubly, especially, exercised, kept, national, power, secret, security , under The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
by Quintilian (Educator, Roman , born in 2035) keywords: character, contemplation, exercised, matter, mind, moulded, multiplicity, subject, variety, vice, virtue , while If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.
by David Ricardo (Economist, British , born in 1772) keywords: augment, commodities, commodity, diminution, every, exchangeable, exercised, increase, labour, lower, must, quantity, realized, regulate, their, value , which By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
by Joseph Franklin Rutherford (Clergyman, American , born in 1869) keywords: adam, before, born, bring, children, disobedience, earth, everything, exercised, god, had, himself, his, imperfect, into, law, live, lost, man, only, power, right, sinners, were , without The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
by Adam Smith (Economist, Scottish , born in 1970) keywords: corrects, customers, discipline, effectual, employment, exercised, fear, frauds, his, losing, negligence, over, real, restrains, their, which , workman I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.
by Alfredo Stroessner (Statesman, Paraguayan , born in 1912) keywords: complete, country, exercised, fully, had, independence, insist, judiciary, justice, order, power, resident, status , think It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
by Dorothy Thompson (Journalist, American , born in 1893) keywords: determines, exercised, fact, itself, liberty, survives, ultimately, way, whether , which The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.
by Dick Thornburgh (Politician, American , born in 1932) keywords: affairs, authorizing, consent, derive, exercised, federal, governed, government, law, local, locally, only, otherwise, powers, those , unless Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
by Anthony Trollope (Author, English , born in 1815) keywords: almost, company, crowd, digestion, even, exercised, gifted, good, individual, intellects, looks, marvelous, over, person, power, temper, unconsciously, upon , which The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
by Benjamin Tucker (Activist, American , born in 1854) keywords: borne, claim, exercised, governments, his, history, however, individual, intimate, life, matters, more, out, pertaining, private, relations, right, socialists, state , would What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Writer, British , born in 1759) keywords: church, dark, exercised, gave, himself, his, man, men, only, perishable, priests, property, purgatory, reason, save, secured, substance, such, their, torments , vast
